hunterpayne

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by hunterpayne 5d ago
Tell me you don't understand deterrence without telling me you don't understand deterrence. Without nuclear weapons, WWIII happens in 1962. People that call it "an unresolved issue" are far more likely to cause warfare
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by hunterpayne 5d ago
So China has learned that their army and leadership needs to live underground for the duration of the war and only come out if they are in a crowd of civilians? They learned that their AA doesn't work against the US? Not sure what sp
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by hunterpayne 7d ago
True, this is just a much bigger one with a vastly larger amounts of hardware.
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by hunterpayne 7d ago
There is no NS proof here. Its just a counter example. There is another team working on a proof but they aren't associated with OpenAI.
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by hunterpayne 7d ago
The OpenAI team didn't make a Lean proof. They brute forced a counter example. The "other" team was doing what you described but they haven't "finished" their work yet. Also, their Lean proof was for a simpl
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by hunterpayne 7d ago
The researchers were driving prompts and trying to actually do math. The OpenAI effort was a pure brute force attempt. I'm not even sure an LLM was actually involved. I think they just used their hardware to run the matrix multiplies
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by hunterpayne 7d ago
This is the most perverse marketing campaign in history. "Our product might wipe out all of human civilization". It is said that heavily regulated industries earn that regulation. Seems like the LLM folks really want that regulat
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by hunterpayne 10d ago
1) Its spelled Medical 2) We have different regulations for different types of institutions 3) NGOs specifically exist to get around those regulations 4) A lobbying group (AARP) should have specific rules around how it can function. Lumpin
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by hunterpayne 11d ago
"They are entities that have a civic purpose, not for profit." If they had a true civic purpose, they would call themselves charities. The specific reason they don't is because an audit of their spending wouldn't meet t
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by hunterpayne 11d ago
"So everyone (even non-union workers) gets higher pay because of unions." The median per capita GDP numbers say otherwise. I have watched Europe get noticeably poorer in my lifetime. Even the tourists can see it.
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by hunterpayne 11d ago
The people you are describing are not liberal. They are progressive which is very much anti-liberal. This is why terms like left and right are so loaded. You can have people who do not agree on almost anything being lumped together. For
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by hunterpayne 11d ago
Please remember that NGOs are not charities. And the entire point of an NGO is to get around restrictions on what governments can do. I think most of the grips about NGOs comes from the selling of NGOs as charities which they very much ar
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by hunterpayne 11d ago
I doubt most people have put that much thought into it. However, a $100M a year for a website with an amount of traffic that isn't absurd, pages which are largely static, and doesn't have to secure financial transactions, seems a
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by hunterpayne 12d ago
"Cambridge is top ranked for everything they offer." You know that there are places outside of England right?
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by hunterpayne 12d ago
20 years ago, this wasn't the case (at least in tech in SV). If you are seeing this today, its because of something (or somethings) specific. Could be the general increase in size of the companies or industry, a problem with recruiti
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by hunterpayne 12d ago
I went to a similar school. It depended on major. If it was a major that the school was known for, say the top ranked CS school...then it was 100% that a grad was someone who was noticeably much, much smarter than most people. If they we
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by hunterpayne 13d ago
Government systems leak information all the time. The type of institution managing the data makes little difference. Its how the institution manages the data that matters.
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by hunterpayne 14d ago
"software developer"...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by hunterpayne 14d ago
I grew up on a farm about 100 miles from where this guy lived. I have never heard of him until now. The type of farming he did wasn't used on working farms since before he (1930s) was born. And there aren't any working farms al
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by hunterpayne 18d ago
I have yet to see such research. I've seen research that says the exact opposite. The devs I see making such pronouncements usually aren't exactly the top devs on their teams. Seems like the result of the double burden to me.
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by hunterpayne 18d ago
How many new bugs get introduced in those fixes?
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by hunterpayne 23d ago
Counterpoint. The US has a higher birth rate than any country in Europe. Many of which have your parental-leave policies. BTW, there is absolutely no correlation between governmental policies and birth rate. You can't bully people
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by hunterpayne 24d ago
"Cities, when done correctly, are a better place to raise a family" The birth rates say otherwise. Cities universally have very very low rates of childbirth. So low that they usually have to depend on a constant inflow from rura
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by hunterpayne 24d ago
The process started in the first decade of the 20th century. It was largely finished by the 1980s. As for increases in irrigation, that's a few different things, but the largest part is substance farmers finally getting some infrastr
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by hunterpayne 24d ago
We also use far less farmland than we did in the past, mostly due to the "green revolution" in the 1970s.
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by hunterpayne 26d ago
The author didn't write the quote.
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by hunterpayne 26d ago
"LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly." This person doesn't understand how to make efficient code. I can write code in almost any language (with
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by hunterpayne 1mo ago
I hate to break it to you. But it took war'ing state-like actors less than a week to start using LLMs for propaganda purposes. There are pictures that most of what some people think/thought were real that never happened. Pictur
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by hunterpayne 1mo ago
Many people do the same...
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by hunterpayne 1mo ago
Oh the irony.

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